Montgomeryshire Football League Explained
The Montgomeryshire Football League (currently the JT Hughes Football League) is a football league in Mid Wales, sitting at the fifth level of the Welsh football league system.
The league hosts several cup competitions. These include: The Emrys Morgan Cup, Montgomeryshire Cup, Village Cup, Tanners Town Cup, League Cup and Consolation Cup.
Teams promoted from Division One may enter the Central Wales Football League if standards and facilities fall into line with the regulations and criteria of the FAW and Mid Wales Football League (Tier 4 of the Welsh Football Pyramid).
History
The league was founded in 1904 as the Montgomeryshire & District League, and the first ten seasons before the First World War saw the league dominated by Aberystwyth Town, who won the inaugural title and two other championships, and Llanidloes who won five titles.
After the war, the league was reformed for a single season with Newtown picking up their only title (to date), before the league went into abeyance with the creation of the Welsh National League setup. The league returned in the 1930s as the Montgomery Junior League[1] and ran until the outbreak of the Second World War, when football was again suspended.
The 1950s were notable for five successive titles for Rodney Rovers, a club from Four Crosses, who played behind the Golden Lion public house.
The 1967–68 saw the league expand to two divisions, a format that continued until the 2021–22 season.
It has also been known as the Montgomeryshire Amateur League.
Member clubs for 2024–25 season
Division One
Champions
Two division structure
One division structure
Those years empty are not known.
- 2023–24: – Llangedwyn
- 2022–23: – Llangedwyn
- 2021–22: – Meifod[10]
- 1968–69: – Llansantffraid
- 1967–68: –
- 1966–67: – Carno
- 1965–66: – Llanrhaeadr
- 1964–65: – Forden United[11]
- 1963–64: – Newtown Amateurs
- 1962–63: – Forden United
- 1961–62: – Trewern United
- 1960–61: – Berriew
- 1959–60: – Montgomery Town
- 1958–59: – Montgomery Town
- 1957–58: – Rodney Rovers[12]
- 1956–57: – Rodney Rovers
- 1955–56: – Rodney Rovers
- 1954–55: – Rodney Rovers
- 1953–54: – Rodney Rovers
- 1952–53: – Montgomery Town
- 1951–52: – Llanfechain
- 1950–51: – Llanfechain
- 1949–50: – Llandrinio
- 1948–49: – Llandrinio
- 1947–48: – Llanfair United
- 1946–47: – Llanfair United[13]
- 1945–46: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1944–45: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1943–44: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1942–43: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1941–42: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1940–41: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1939–40: – Football suspended - World War Two
- 1938–39: – Caersws
- 1937–38: – Caersws[14]
- 1936–37: – Guilsfield
- 1935–36: –
- 1934–35: – Newtown C C
- 1920–21: – League went into abeyance with the creation of the Welsh National League setup (started again in 1930s, but unclear which season)
- 1919–20: – Newtown
- 1918–19: – Football suspended - World War One
- 1917–18: – Football suspended - World War One
- 1916–17: – Football suspended - World War One
- 1915–16: – Football suspended - World War One
- 1914–15: – Football suspended - World War One
- 1913–14: – Llanidloes
- 1912–13: – Llanidloes
- 1911–12: – Llanidloes
- 1910–11: – Llanfyllin
- 1909–10: – Llanidloes[15]
- 1908–09: – Llanidloes[16]
- 1907–08: – Aberystwyth Town[17]
- 1906–07: – Aberystwyth Town
- 1905–06: – Newtown North End[18]
- 1904–05: – Aberystwyth Town
Titles by team
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 1934-35 . Welsh Soccer Archive . 31 August 2021.
- Web site: Grosvenor . Gavin . Guilsfield and Llanrhaeadr crowned league champions . Powys County Times . 24 August 2021.
- Web site: Reserves are league champions! . Llanfair United FC . 24 August 2021.
- Web site: 2012-13 tables, part 5 . Football Club History Database . 16 November 2021.
- Web site: Kerry FC . Buckley Town FC . 24 August 2021.
- Web site: Berriew FC . Buckley Town FC . 24 August 2021.
- Web site: CPD Carno FC . Buckley Town FC.
- Web site: Grosvenor . Gavin . Review of Welsh football third division - Montgomery Town . Powys County Times . 24 August 2021.
- Web site: Club Information . 23 March 2017 . The New Saints F.C..
- News: Grosvenor . Gavin . Brecon Corries and Meifod celebrate league titles in style . 17 May 2022 . Powys County Times . 14 May 2022.
- Web site: Grosvenor . Gavin . Saturday Spotlight: The story of Forden United . Powys County Times . 23 August 2021.
- Web site: Grosvenor . Gavin . Will the Black Sheep of Mid Wales football ever return . Powys County Times . 24 August 2021.
- Web site: Club Honours . Llanfair United F.C..
- Web site: Llanfair United v Penparcau 2021 . Llanfair United FC.
- News: League Table . 24 August 2021 . The Aberystwyth Observer . 7 April 1910.
- News: MONTGOMERYSHIRE LEAGUE.|1909-05-06|The Aberystwith Observer - Welsh Newspapers . 24 August 2021 . The Aberystwyth Observer . 6 May 1909.
- News: MONTGOMERYSHIRE AND DISTRICT LEAGUE.|1908-04-02|The Aberystwith Observer - Welsh Newspapers . 24 August 2021 . The Aberystwyth Observer . 2 April 1908.
- Web site: Grosvenor . Gavin . A history of Newtown's factory football clubs . Powys County Times . 24 August 2021.
